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First Principles: Man, Once Surrendering His Reason, Has No Remaining Guard Against Absurdities…and Like A Ship Without Rudder, Is the Sport of Every Wind
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.” – Thomas Jefferson (1822) Doesn’t this sound like the response to Covid in all … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdities, First Principles, Guard, Mankind, Reason, Rudder, Ship, Sport, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson, Wind
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aim, Art of Government, Counselor, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Great Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Require, Right and Wrong, Self, Think
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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Tagged A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Aim, Art, Consist, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Government, Honest, Mankind, Thomas Jefferson
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In A Declaration of War
In A Declaration of Warby Michael DoyleTitans are unleashed in a visionDreamed without the requisite precisionTo dare to say what it really meansThis then is the way of such types of dreamsKing Hyperion seeks to rule over mankindBut as with … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Angels, Benevolence, Blind, Chaos, Conquest, Contend, Cost, Dare, Declaration of War, Degrees of Violence, Demands, Depth, Desperation, Dream, Dreams, End, Eons, Eyes, Fatality, Folly, Hades, Heaven, Heed, Holy Flame, Immortality, Kind, King Hyperion, Lost, Madness, Mankind, Means, Mercy, Name, Need, Oracle, Poetry and Poems, Precision, Priest, Reign of Gods, Sadness, Salvation, Separation, Sibylline Monastery, Strength, Test, Time, Titans, Tread, Tyrant, Virgin Oracle, Vision, War
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First Principles: I Love the Man That Can Smile In Trouble, That Can Gather Strength From Distress, and Grow Brave By Reflection
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, First Principles, Frim, Grow Brave, Heart, Love, Mankind, No. 1, Principles, Reflection, Shrink, Small Minds, Smile, The Crisis, Thomas Paine
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Thought For the Day: The Influence of Each Human Being On Others In This Life Is A Kind of Immortality
“The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” -John Quincy Adams, 6th president of the US (11 Jul 1767-1848)
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Tagged Each, Fires, Human Being, Immortality, Impossibilities, Influence, John Quincy Adams, Kind, Life, Mankind, Mission, Move, Others, Soul, Thought For the Day, Vanish
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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Right and Wrong, Think and Act, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: This Constitution Is the Most Free One, and By Far the Best, Now Existing On the Earth
“…that the King with and by the authority of parliament, is able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the crown, and the descent, limitation, inheritance and government thereof” is founded on the principles of liberty and … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Civil Government, Common Sense, Conssent, Constitution, Dominion, First Principles, Free Man, God, James Otis, King, Laws and Statutes, Legislature, Mankind, Nature, Parliment, Principles of Liberty, Represented, Rights of British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763), Tax, Unlimited Passive Obedience
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Thought For the Day: There Are Only Two Kinds of Men: the Righteous Who Believe Themselves Sinners; the Sinners Who Believe Themselves Righteous
“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.” – Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662)
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Tagged Believe, Blaise Pascal, Mankind, Righteous, Sinners, Thought For the Day, Two Kinds
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 